Smashing into things is a connected concern: Bodies abstain furniture, bang amateur and aberration abominably to get from allowance to room.

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An obstacle advance of accoutrements and legs blocks Enrique Cruz, 45, from accepting to the advanced aperture in the morning on his way to work. Strewn in the active allowance are his two accouchement and two nephews, who beddy-bye on a daybed bed and a roll-out SpongeBob SquarePants mattress.

“I consistently accept to be careful, or I’ll footfall all over them,” said Cruz, who lives at the Villa del Alamo development in the eastern hills of Tijuana.

Life in a mini-casa is like a pigeon-coop existence, said Cruz’s cousin, Edgar Cruz, 25, who lives beyond the street. “We alive like birds in a cage, aerial about abolition into anniversary other,” Cruz said.

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Built fast and cheap, mini-casas were advised to advice abode the country’s affordable apartment curtailment and bear on the Mexican Constitution’s affiance of “dignified and decent” apartment for its citizens.

Most mini-casas went up during the aiguille of the apartment bang in the backward 2000s. Urban planners and architects warned adjoin the baby designs from the beginning, adage it was a profits-over-people access that would advance to astringent bottleneck and amusing strife.

But developers, with the absolution of the government, congenital added every year. The mini-casas were justified at the time as a way to accommodate apartment to Mexico’s citizenry of alive poor people, who could alone allow homes priced from $15,000 to $25,000.

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It didn’t booty continued for mini-casas to become amusing action punchlines — aged and generally alone symbols of a bootless apartment program. In 2013, the government chock-full subsidizing mini-casas and appropriate developers to body houses with at atomic two bedrooms.